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Fort Hood survivor supports gunman's execution by firing squad but questions livestream
Listen: 'I played dead', Fort Hood survivor Alonzo Lunsford who was shot seven times tells BBC's Today
A former US Army sergeant who survived the mass shooting on Fort Hood has said that while he supports the execution of the gunman by firing squad, he is concerned about it being livestreamed.
Alonzo Lunsford, who was shot seven times, told the BBC that the "method is befitting" for Nidal Hasan because other methods like lethal injection would be "doing him a favour".
Hasan, a US Army psychiatrist, fatally shot 13 unarmed US soldiers in a medical building at Fort Hood, in Texas, in 2009.
But while Lunsford agreed with the method of execution, he said it was "not something you should view for entertainment purposes".
Speaking to Radio 4's Today programme on Friday, he said: "To show the whole thing without it being censored for the general public, for me personally, I don't agree with that, but it's not about my personal belief."
Firing squad execution to be livestreamed, Pentagon says
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said the public will be able to view a livestream of the execution, saying it is important for people to see the consequences of this kind of crime.
If it goes ahead, and legal experts told the BBC it might not ever happen, it would be the first public execution in the US in almost a century.
Lunsford explained that while he is concerned about the "effect" and "message" a livestream would send to younger people, when it comes to the survivors, their families and the families of the victims, they "should be able to look at it".